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24/6: A Prescription for a Healthier, Happier Life is unavailable, but you can change that!

“Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy.” Sounds nice, but how do we find rest in a 24/7 world? Just as the Hebrews were slaves in Egypt, we have become slaves to technology. Our technological tools allow 24-hour productivity and connectivity, give us more control, and subtlety enslave us to busyness itself. Sabbath is about restraint, about intentionally not doing everything all the time just...

Thus, for the purposes of this book, it doesn’t matter what you call the Sabbath—Shabbat, Shabbos, Saturday, Sunday, 24/6, a day of rest, ceasing day, or Stop Day. What’s important is the stopping. What God Created on the Seventh Day In Genesis, we find a seven-day week. On Monday, God cooks up a universe with a few simple ingredients. He mixes nuclear weak and strong forces with a dash of gravity and a pinch of electromagnetism. He seasons the mix with covalent and ionic bonds. By midweek, he forms